List of the physiographic regions of the world
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The landforms of Earth are generally divided into physiographic divisions, consisting of physiographic provinces, which in turn consist of physiographic sections,[1][2][3] though some others use different terminology, such as realms, regions and subregions.[4] Some areas have further categorized their respective areas into more detailed subsections.[5][6]
Landmass | Region / Division | Province | Section
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Africa | [citation needed] | Atlas Mountains | Mediterranean Atlas |
Canary Islands | |||
[citation needed] | Sahara | ||
Encircling Plateaus And Lowlands | |||
Central Sahara Ergs | |||
Western Sahara | |||
Sudan | Niger Basin | ||
Chad Basin | |||
Middle Nile Basin | |||
Mid-African | |||
Guinea Coast | |||
Cameroon Mountains | |||
Coastal Lowlands | |||
Congo Basin | |||
South African Platform[citation needed] | |||
Encircling Uplands | |||
Veldt | |||
High Karroo | |||
Namib Desert | |||
Madagascar | |||
East African Highlands[citation needed] | Rift Valley | Coastal Belt | |
High Interior Plateau | |||
Eastern Rift Belt | |||
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Americas | Appalachian | ||
Maritime Plain | |||
Notre Dame And Megantic Mountains | |||
Piedmont province | |||
Blue Ridge province | Northern section | ||
Southern section | |||
Valley And Ridge province | Tennessee section | ||
Middle section | |||
Hudson Valley | |||
St. Lawrence Valley | Champlain section | ||
Northern section | |||
Appalachian Plateaus province | Mohawk section | ||
Catskill section | |||
Southern New York section | |||
Allegheny Mountain section | |||
Kanawha section | |||
Cumberland Plateau section | |||
Cumberland Mountain section | |||
New England province | |||
New England Upland section | |||
White Mountain section | |||
Green Mountain section | |||
Taconic section | |||
Arctic Lowlands | Eastern Arctic Lowlands | ||
Western Arctic Lowlands | |||
Atlantic Plain | Continental Shelf | ||
Coastal Plain | Embayed section | ||
Sea Island section | |||
Floridian section | |||
East Gulf Coastal Plain | |||
Mississippi Alluvial Plain | |||
West Gulf Coastal Plain | |||
Canadian Shield | Laurentian Upland | Superior Upland | |
Adirondack province | |||
Kazan | |||
Davis | |||
Hudson | Hudson Bay Lowlands | ||
James | |||
Innuitian Region | Eastern High Arctic Glacier | ||
Western High Arctic | |||
Interior Highlands | Ozark Plateaus | Springfield- | |
Boston Mountains | |||
Ouachita province | Arkansas Valley | ||
Ouachita Mountains | |||
Interior Plains | Interior Low Plateaus | Highland Rim section | |
Lexington Plain | |||
Nashville Basin | |||
Great Plains | Missouri Plateau, Glaciated | ||
Missouri Plateau, Unglaciated | |||
Black Hills | |||
High Plains | |||
Arctic Coastal Plain | |||
Colorado Piedmont | |||
Raton section | |||
Edwards Plateau | |||
Central Texas section | |||
Central Lowland | Dissected Till Plains | ||
Eastern Lake section | |||
Osage Plains | |||
Till Plains | |||
Western Lake section | |||
Wisconsin Driftless section | |||
Mackenzie Delta | Mackenzie River | ||
Yukon Coastal Plain | |||
Manitoba Lowlands | |||
Northern Boreal Plains | Great Slave Plain | ||
Great Bear Plain | |||
Anderson Plain | |||
Peel Plain And Plateau | |||
Colville Hills | |||
Prairie Grasslands | Alberta Plain | ||
Saskatchewan Hills | |||
Southern Boreal Plains And Plateaus | Alberta Plateau | ||
Saskatchewan Plain | |||
Intermontane Plateaus | Columbia Plateau | Walla Walla Plateau | |
Blue Mountain section | |||
Payette section | |||
Snake River Plain | |||
Harney section | |||
Colorado Plateaus | High Plateaus Of Utah | ||
Uinta Basin | |||
Canyon Lands | |||
Navajo section | |||
Grand Canyon section | |||
Datil-Mogollon Section | |||
Acoma-Zuni Section | |||
Basin And Range Province | Great Basin | ||
Mojave Desert—Mojave Ranges | |||
Salton Trough—Colorado Desert Ranges | |||
Sonoran Desert—Sonoran Desert Ranges | |||
Mexican Highland | |||
Sacramento section | |||
Mexican Altiplano | |||
Northern Plateaus | Interior Plateau | ||
Yukon-Tanana Uplands | Yukon Plateau | ||
Cassiar Mountains | |||
Skeena Mountains | |||
Liard Plain | |||
Hyland Plateau | |||
Pelly Mountains | |||
Pacific Coast Ranges | Cascade-Sierra Mountains | Northern Cascade Mountains | |
Middle Cascade Mountains | |||
Southern Cascade Mountains | |||
Sierra Nevada | |||
Pacific Border province | Aleutian Islands | ||
Boundary Ranges | |||
Puget Trough | |||
Olympic Mountains | |||
Oregon Coast Range | |||
Klamath Mountains | |||
California Trough | |||
California Coast Ranges | |||
Transverse Ranges (Los Angeles Mountains) | |||
Lower California province | Peninsular Ranges | ||
Rocky Mountain System | Wyoming Basin | ||
Columbia Mountains | Columbia Highlands | ||
Interior Plateau | |||
Southern Rocky Mountain Trench | |||
Arctic Mountains | Brooks Range | ||
Arctic Foothills | |||
Northern Rocky Mountains | |||
Middle Rocky Mountains | |||
Southern Rocky Mountains | |||
Sierra Madre Occidental | Lava (Rhyolite) Plateau | ||
Sonoran High Ranges | |||
Eastern Upland With Basins | |||
Sierra Madre Oriental | Northern section | ||
The High Sierra | |||
Cross Ranges | |||
Lower Ranges | |||
Sierra Madre del Sur | Balsas-Mexcala Basin | ||
Oaxaca Upland | |||
Northeast Folded Ranges | |||
Southern Slope | |||
Northern section | |||
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt | |||
Southern Mexican Highlands | |||
Baja California Peninsula | Peninsular Ranges | ||
Southern Horst | |||
Llano De La Magdalena | |||
Colorado Delta | |||
Sonoran Desert | |||
Deltas | |||
Sinaloa Coast | |||
Piedmont Ranges | |||
Central Meseta | |||
Gulf Coastal Lowland | |||
Pitted Lowlands | |||
Yucatan Platform | |||
East Coast | |||
Andean Mountain System | Northern Andes | Cordillera Occidental | |
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru | |||
Cordillera Central | |||
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru | |||
Middle Magdalena Basin | |||
Maracaibo Basin | |||
Central Andes | Cordillera Occidental | ||
Atacama Desert | |||
Altiplano | |||
Cordillera Oriental | |||
Southern Andes | Fuegian Andes | ||
Patagonian Andes | |||
Andean Piedmont | |||
Brazilian Highlands | Brazilian Oldland | ||
Goyaz Massif | |||
Mato Grosso Plateau | |||
Guiana Shield | |||
Chiquitos Plateau | |||
Parana Plateau | |||
Coastal Plain | |||
Guiana Highlands | Guiana Coastal Plain | ||
Llanos De Mojos | |||
Orinoco Basin | |||
Gran Chaco | |||
Pantanal | |||
Argentine Mesopotamia | |||
Pampas | |||
Monte | |||
Patagonian Plateau |
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Antarctica | East Antarctica | ||
West Antarctica |
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Australia | Gulf of Carpentaria | ||
Great Artesian Basin | Wilcannia Threshold | ||
Murray Basin | Naracoorte Platform | ||
Encounter Shelf | |||
East Australian Cordillera | Cape York Platform | Coen Belt | |
Torres Strait Islands | |||
Normanby Platform | |||
Atherton Tableland | |||
Mount Emu Lava Plains | |||
Cairns Littoral | |||
Great Barrier Reef | Murray Islands | ||
Central Queensland Highlands | Bowen-Springsure Belt | ||
Buckland Basalt Tablelands | |||
Rockhampton-Brisbane Belt | Maryborough Basin | ||
Toowoomba Basalt Plateaus | |||
New England Block | Clarence Basin | ||
Hunter-Hawkesbury Sunkland | Sydney Basin | ||
Warrumbungle-Liverpool Basalt Ranges | |||
Blue Mountains | |||
Central Highlands Of New South Wales | Western Slopes | ||
Cobar Platform | |||
Kosciusko Massif | Gourock-Monaro Belt | ||
Eastern Victorian Highlands | |||
Western Victorian Highlands | Grampians | ||
Western Basalt Plains Of Victoria | Otway Hills | ||
Gippsland | South Gippsland Hills | ||
Port Phillip Sunkland | |||
Western Tasmanian Highlands | Central Tasmanian Plateau | ||
Bass-Midland Graben | Bass Strait | ||
Ben Lomond Block | |||
Western Australian Shield | Yilgarn Block | Stirling-Mount Barren Block | |
Darling Hills | |||
Donnybrook Sunkland | Naturaliste-Leeuwin Horst | ||
Swan Coastal Belt | Dandaragan Plateau | ||
Greenough Block | |||
Rottnest-Abrolhos Shelf | |||
Carnarvon Basin | Shark Bay-Byro Plains | ||
Nullagine Platform | Pilbara Block | ||
Fortescue Rift | |||
Hamersley Plateau | |||
Onslow Coastal Plain | |||
Dampier Rise | |||
Canning Basin | Pindan Country | ||
Fitzroy Valley | |||
Kimberly Block | King Leopold Range | ||
Durack Range | |||
Leveque Rise | |||
Browse Depression | |||
Londonderry Rise | |||
Antrim Region | Ord Basin | ||
Cambridge Gulf Lowlands | |||
Bonaparte Depression | |||
Arnhem Block | Pine Creek Belt | ||
Van Dieman Rise | |||
Arafura Shelf | |||
Wessel Rise | |||
Arunta-Sturt Block | |||
Barkly Tableland | Mueller Plateau | ||
Sandover-Pituri Platform | |||
Mount Isa-Cloncurry Fold Belt | |||
MacDonnell Fold Belt | |||
Amadeus Sunkland | |||
Musgrave Block | |||
Nurrari Plain | |||
Eucla Basin | Eyre Coastal Plain | ||
Eucla Shelf | |||
Gawler Block | |||
South Australian Shatter Belt | Torrens Graben | ||
Yorke Horst | |||
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Eurasia | Fenno-Scandian Shield | Norway Upland | |
Swedish Lowland | |||
Lake Region | |||
Karelian Trough | |||
English Lowlands | |||
Central European Uplands | Hibernian Uplands | ||
Cornish-Welsh Uplands | |||
Pennine Chain | |||
Scottish Highlands | |||
Armorican Massive | |||
South Central Plateau (Massif Central) | |||
Central Plateau (Meseta Central) | |||
Jura Range | |||
Vosges Mountains and Black Forest Mountains | |||
Rhenish Massif | |||
West Hesse Highlands | |||
East Hesse Highlands | |||
Weser Uplands | |||
Bohemian Massive | |||
Cantabrian Mountains | |||
Alpine System | Pyrenees | ||
Alps | Southern Alps | ||
Western Alps | |||
Eastern Alps | |||
Cantabrian Mountains | |||
Apennines | |||
Ebro Lowlands | |||
Volcanic Lowlands | |||
Spanish Meseta | |||
Dinaric-Grecian Mountains | Pindus | ||
Andalusian Lowlands | |||
Corsardinian Highlands | |||
Baetic Cordillera | |||
Pannonian Basin | Western Pannonian Plain | ||
Eastern Pannonian Plain | |||
Transylvanian Basin[7] | |||
Central Balkan Ranges | |||
Upper Thracian Plain | |||
Carpathians | Western Carpathians | ||
Eastern Carpathians | |||
Southern Carpathians | |||
Serbian Carpathians | |||
Western Romanian Carpathians | |||
Crimean Mountains | |||
Caucasus | Greater Caucasus | ||
Lesser Caucasus | |||
Kolkhida Lowland | |||
Great European Plain | Aquitanian Plain | ||
Netherlands | |||
North German Lowlands | |||
Polesian Lowland | |||
Dnieper Lowland | |||
Volhynian-Podolian Plateau | Volhynian-Podolian Upland | ||
Moldavian Plateau | |||
Roztocze | |||
Danubian Plain and Wallachian Plain | |||
Black Sea-Azov Lowland | Black Sea Lowland | ||
Azov Lowland | |||
Donets-Azov Upland | Azov Upland | ||
Donets Ridge | |||
Central Russian Upland | |||
Central Russian Upland | Kalach Upland | ||
Oka–Don Lowland | |||
Russian Plain | |||
Ural Mountains | Northern Urals | ||
Central Urals | |||
Southern Urals | |||
Zagros Mountains | |||
Bitlis Mountains | |||
Kopet-Dag Mountains | |||
Elburz Mountains | Western Elburz | ||
Central Elburz | |||
Eastern Elburz | |||
Central Iranian Plateau | Dasht-e Kavir | ||
Dasht-e Lut | |||
Pontus Mountains | |||
Taurus Mountains | |||
Anatolian Plateau | |||
Fertile Crescent | |||
West Siberian Plain | Taiga | ||
Kazakh Steppe | |||
Central Siberian Upland | Yenisei Horst | ||
Vilyuy Plain | |||
Aldan Basin | |||
Yakutsk Basin | |||
Eastern Siberian Highlands | Anadyr Highlands | ||
Kolyma Mountains | |||
Kamchatka Peninsula | |||
Verkhoyansk Range | |||
Aldan Highlands/Stanovoy Range | |||
Sikhote-Alin Range | |||
Sakhalin Island | |||
Northern Asian Mountains | Kentei Hills | ||
Altai Mountains | |||
Great Indian Plain | |||
Himalayan Mountain System | Hindu Kush Mountains | ||
Lesser Himalayas | |||
Great Himalayas | |||
Tethys Himalayas | |||
Pamirs | |||
Tibetan Plateau | |||
Deccan Plateau | Western Ghats | ||
Eastern Ghats | |||
Vindhya Range | |||
Satpura Range | |||
Taklamakan Desert | |||
Baikal Basin | |||
Junggar Basin | |||
Gobi Desert | |||
Qaidam Basin |
References[]
- ^ "Physiographic divisions of the conterminous U.S." U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
- ^ "Physiographic & Landform – World, U.S." Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ "The Atlas of Canada – physiographic regions". Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ "Defining Physiographic Realms and Regions: The Spatial Variation of Landscapes". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
- ^ Fichter, Lynn S. (1999). "A Description of the Geology of Virginia". James Madison University. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ Bluemle, John; Biek, Bob (2007). "No Ordinary Plain: North Dakota's Physiography and Landforms". North Dakota Geological Survey. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ Sometimes is considered a section of Carpathians province.
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